How Can I Convince Management of HR's Value Without Hard Numbers? Seeking Your Advice

Dear All,

I am working with an edible oil industry as an Assistant Manager HR. I am a member of the core team of HR in this organization. As this is a core team, we are facing a lot of issues in the implementation of HR systems. According to my management, each department can showcase their importance in figures, making it easy to understand. However, when HR discusses future preparation, employee development, organization structure, etc., there are no figures or statistics provided.

I am now planning to prepare a presentation on the "Importance of HR in an organization." To create this presentation, I require your valuable suggestions and information. Please keep in mind that the majority of our middle management and senior management personnel hold their positions due to their experience rather than qualifications. Therefore, we need to use language and points accordingly.

Your assistance is crucial; please help me out.

Regards,
Sujeet

Hello Sir,

I am not at that high level in the HR field; I am a beginner. I am not offering any suggestions or advice, but rather sharing my assumptions and viewpoints that I have in mind.

HR is as important to an organization as our body is to our life. Unless our internal workings are functioning well, we will struggle to deal with the challenges we face in our external environment.

Whether it was the personnel department in earlier times or the HR department nowadays, both are crucial, just like finance & accounts or marketing & sales.

It is just as easy to handle machines or money as it is to manage human resources because it is people who operate machines or handle money.

Selecting the right candidate for the right position at the right time, and most importantly, at the right cost, is not merely a matter of paperwork or words.

I hope that what I have written here will provide you with some ideas for your presentation. Please let me know if I have made any mistakes, and also about your presentation—how it went. If you can correct me, it would be greatly helpful to me.

Hi Nehak,

Very well said, and thanks for the support. My presentation is on 01 Feb, and the participants are MD, CEO, GM Commercial, GM Finance, GM Production, and GM Sales. I will surely update you after the presentation.

Regards,
Sujeet